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Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality
(From the text: The committee finds that evidence convincingly supports a causal relationship between some vaccines and some adverse events…evidence favors rejection of five vaccine-adverse event relationships… However, for the majority of cases (135 vaccine-adverse event pairs), the evidence was inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship.”
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Adverse-Effects-of-Vaccines-Evidence-and-Causality.aspx

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07853890.2011.645353

The Number Needed to Vaccinate to Prevent Infant Pertussis Hospitalization and Death Through Parent Cocoon Immunization

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/01/cid.cir836.abstract?sid=446ff7dc-43cb-4f25-9696-a8dea1459a01

The Evolutionary Consequences of Blood-Stage Vaccination on the Rodent Malaria Plasmodium chabaudi
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001368?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosbiology%2FNewArticles+(Ambra+-+Biology+New+Articles

Selection of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Vaccine Escape Mutants in HBV-Infected and HBV/HIV-Coinfected Patients Failing Antiretroviral Drugs With Anti-HBV Activity
http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Fulltext/2007/11010/Selection_of_Hepatitis_B_Virus__HBV__Vaccine.4.aspx

Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: A Critical Assessment of the Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
http://www.jpands.org/vol11no2/ayoub.pdf

Review of the United States universal varicella vaccination program: Herpes zoster incidence rates, cost-effectiveness, and vaccine efficacy based primarily on the Antelope Valley Varicella Active Surveillance Project data
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X12007761

Adverse events and quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?volume=302&issue=24&page=2657

Attenuated vaccines can recombine to form virulent field viruses
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6091/188.abstract

Mandatory HPV Vaccination
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1104867

Acellular pertussis vaccination facilitates Bordetella parapertussis infection in a rodent model of bordetellosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20200027

No autoimmune safety signal after vaccination with quadrivalent HPV vaccine Gardasil?
http://tinyurl.com/72uvrb2

Influenza vaccination: policy versus evidence
http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7574/912%2523TBL2.full

Human papillomavirus vaccine trials in India
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60270-5/fulltext

Australia suspends seasonal flu vaccination of young children
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2419

Australia suspends seasonal flu vaccination of young children
http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/adverse-events-following-influenza-vaccination-australia-should-we-be-surp

Child influenza vaccination: Ramifications of adverse events in children in Australia
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2994

Vaccine safety: current systems and recent findings
http://journals.lww.com/co-pediatrics/Abstract/2010/02000/Vaccine_safety__current_systems_and_recent.16.aspx

Excess mortality from seasonal influenza is negligible below the age of 50 in Israel: implications for vaccine policy
http://www.springerlink.com/content/2p44p50005827585/

Adventitious Agents and Vaccines
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631857/pdf/11485673.pdf

Why Do Pertussis Vaccines Fail?
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/5/968.extract

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